THE INCRETINS

There is no doubt that the new incretin weight loss drugs will revolutionize the treatment of obesity, but how exactly. I will explain the current field of obesity treatment. Up to this point I can easily say we are doing a poor job of treating obesity. The incidence of obesity in the United states has been rising over the last 150 years to the point that now we have a 40% incidence of obesity in adults, and it continues to rise.

The primary factor in becoming obese is your diet. Your genome has little to do with it. The current diets recommended to either prevent or treat obesity have largely not worked well. The most common advice to given to treat this condition is to eat less and exercise more has failed, although we keep telling people to do this. Theoretically it should work every time. The reason it fails is hunger.

A billion people in the world living in countries eating the modern Western Diet now have obesity, prediabetes, or Type 2 diabetes. Almost all of them initially try the eat less and exercise more diet to lose weight. It fails almost all the time. The new anti-obesity would make all of them lose weight, which in this case means fat loss..

Most of us are wise enough to know that you do not get something for nothing. These drugs are safe and effective, and will eventually become widely used, but there are a few hitches.

I will review all of the current practical weight loss diets, as well as the new incretin diet. The future may involve elements of all of them.

I am going to teach you several things which most of you may not know yet. But remember, the future is not that hard to imagine, but hard to predict accurately,.